* MP-MA-16. Includes the necessary trunk interface card functionality for T1 PRI, E1, and IP-based telephony. For T1 PRI, the MP-MA-16-PRI supports AT&T, Bell, and Nortel protocols. For E1, the MP-MA-16-PRI supports Euro ISDN and QSIG protocols. For IP, the MP-MA-16 supports G.711 and G.729a audio encoding. Each MP-MA-16 requires at least one Smart Blade. The MP-MA-16 supports up to 16 PSTN spans.

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This section contains information on and examples of the different blade configurations for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server system. (For instructions on configuring the Audio Server system, refer to the '' Configuration Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace '' '' Audio Server '' at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/ps5664/ps5669/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html.)

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This section contains information on and examples of the different blade configurations for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server system. To configure the system, see [[Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 6.x -- Configuring the Audio Server|Configuring the Audio Server]].

T1 CAS Smart Blades and T1 PRI and E1 Multi Access Blades are installed starting from slot 1 on the bottom and move to the top. IP Multi Access Blades are installed starting from slot 6 on the top and move to the bottom.

T1 CAS Smart Blades and T1 PRI and E1 Multi Access Blades are installed starting from slot 1 on the bottom and move to the top. IP Multi Access Blades are installed starting from slot 6 on the top and move to the bottom.

Hardware Characteristics of the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8106

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8106 is a rack-mountable box that is 7 inches tall, 18.9 inches wide, and 14.5 inches deep. Fully loaded, it weighs up to 40 pounds.

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8106 has the capacity for a CPU card, six slots for Smart Blades or Multi Access Blades to provide physical connectivity to the phone network, and four drives: two disk drives, a floppy drive, and a CD-ROM drive. The front of the chassis allows access to the CPU, Smart Blades, and redundant power supplies. LAN cables, and telephony and IP cables plug into the back.

Hardware Characteristics of the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8112

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8112 has the capacity for a CPU card, a hot swap controller (HSC), 12 slots for Smart Blades or Multi Access Blades to provide physical connectivity to the phone network, and four drives: two disk drives, a floppy drive, and a CD-ROM drive. The front of the chassis allows access to the CPU, Smart Blades, and redundant power supplies. LAN cables, and telephony and IP cables plug into the back.

Note: Because Multi Access Blades do not provide conferencing capability, every 96 ports of IP require one Smart Blade.

T1 Smart Blade. Provides digital signal processing to ensure the highest voice quality and superior conferencing functions. Provides both PRC and MSC control functionality along with the necessary trunk interface functionality for digital T1 phone lines. This Smart Blade also provides the ability to connect up to four T1 spans (96 phone calls) by using E&M wink-start, loop-start, and ground-start call supervision.

Multi Access Blades

Components that enhance the Smart Blade by including the necessary Ethernet interface for IP-based telephony. The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace H.323/SIP IPGW is required for full functionality.

MP-MA-4. Includes the necessary trunk interface card functionality for T1 PRI, E1, and IP-based telephony. For T1 PRI, the MP-MA-4-PRI supports AT&T, Bell, and Nortel protocols. For E1, the MP-MA-4-PRI supports Euro ISDN and QSIG protocols. For IP, the MP-MA-4 supports G.711 and G.729a audio encoding. Each MP-MA-4 requires at least one Smart Blade. The MP-MA-4 supports up to four PSTN spans.

MP-MA-16. Includes the necessary trunk interface card functionality for T1 PRI, E1, and IP-based telephony. For T1 PRI, the MP-MA-16-PRI supports AT&T, Bell, and Nortel protocols. For E1, the MP-MA-16-PRI supports Euro ISDN and QSIG protocols. For IP, the MP-MA-16 supports G.711 and G.729a audio encoding. Each MP-MA-16 requires at least one Smart Blade. The MP-MA-16 supports up to 16 PSTN spans.

Note: If a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8106 uses only one MP-MA-4-PRI for PSTN (that is, for T1 PRI or E1) in slot 1, then slot 2 will be reserved when Cisco Systems ships the Audio Server system.

Breakout box and cables

The breakout box provides a standard RJ-45 telephony interface for E1 and T1 PRI Cisco Unified MeetingPlace systems. It interfaces to a maximum of 16 cables. For each MP-MA-16-PRI shipped with the Audio Serversystem, we include 16 telephony cables and two trunk interface cables (50-pin Amphenol connectors) to connect each MP-MA-16-PRI to the breakout box; for each MP-MA-4-PRI shipped with the Audio Server system, we include four telephony cables and one trunk interface cable (50-pin Amphenol connector) to connect each MP-MA-4-PRI to the breakout box.

System database disks

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system has two 36 GB hard disks for the Audio Server software and the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system database. Space is allocated equally on each drive, resulting in an extra database and system space as follows:

System database disk 1. Supports up to 500 MB of primary system files, 800 MB of temporary work space, and 5 GB of alternative space for storing the automatic database backup from disk 2. Disk 1 also includes 22 GB of additional storage and user and meeting names.

System database disk 2. Supports up to 500 MB of alternate system files, 800 MB of temporary workspace, and 5 GB of alternative space for storing the automatic database backup from disk 1. Disk 2 also includes 22 GB of additional storage and user and meeting names.

Network interface

A pair of 10/100 Ethernet ports on the CPU transition module. The first port is used as the primary network interface. (The second network interface is not used at this time.)

External modem

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system includes an external modem connected to the Audio Server through a serial cable. The modem cable connects through the back of the Audio Server through a COM2 connector to the CPU transition module.

Red on both-Neither power supply unit is working properly. Shut off the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8106 as soon as possible and remove all cards, the floppy drive and CD-ROM drive housing unit, and the disk drives.

None on both-Either the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8106 is powered off or the power supply units are not properly inserted.

Green on one; red on other-One power supply unit is working properly, and the other is either bad or not properly inserted.

Green on one; none on other-One power supply unit is working properly, and the other is either bad or not properly inserted.

Red on one; none on other-One power supply unit is bad, and the other is not properly inserted.

Figure: Locations of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8112 LEDs

About Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server System Configurations

This section contains information on and examples of the different blade configurations for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server system. To configure the system, see Configuring the Audio Server.

Table: Supported Access Ports

Note that mixing protocols is supported only in combination with IP ports:

T1 PRI and IP

E1 and IP

T1 CAS and IP

(For example, a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system cannot have both T1 and E1 ports configured, but it can have T1-either PRI or CAS-and IP ports, or E1 and IP ports. In addition, a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system cannot have both T1 CAS and T1 PRI ports configured.)

T1 CAS Smart Blades and T1 PRI and E1 Multi Access Blades are installed starting from slot 1 on the bottom and move to the top. IP Multi Access Blades are installed starting from slot 6 on the top and move to the bottom.

Table: 120 IP Ports, 92 T1 PRI Ports, 212 Total Ports

Slot

Blade

6

MP-MA-4

5

4

SB

3

SB

2

SB

1

MP-MA-4-PRI

In Table: 120 IP Ports, 253 T1 PRI Ports, 373 Total Ports, the MP-MA-4 in slot 6 provides 120 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blade in slot 5 uses its 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 24 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 + 24 = 120). The MP-MA-16-PRI in slot 1 provides 253 T1 PRI ports. The Smart Blades in slots 2 and 3 use their 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 61 of its 72 ports for conferencing. (The Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 24 of its ports for the IP portion of the configuration and 61 ports for the T1 PRI portion of the configuration.)

In Table: 120 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 240 Total Ports, the MP-MA-4 in slot 6 provides 120 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blade in slot 4 uses its 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 3 uses 24 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 + 24 = 120). The MP-MA-4-PRI in slot 1 provides 120 E1 ports. The remaining 72 ports in slot 3 (96 - the 24 used for the IP conferencing) plus 48 ports in slot 2 (72 + 48 = 120) are used for the E1 portion of the configuration.

Table: 120 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 240 Total Ports

Slot

Blade

6

MP-MA-4

5

4

SB

3

SB

2

SB

1

MP-MA-4-PRI

In Table: 120 IP Ports, 240 E1 Ports, 360 Total Ports, the MP-MA-4 in slot 6 provides 120 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blade in slot 5 uses its 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 24 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 + 24 = 120). The MP-MA-16-PRI in slot 1 provides 240 E1 ports. The Smart Blades in slots 2 and 3 use their 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 48 of its remaining 72 ports for conferencing (96 + 96 + 48 = 240). (The Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 24 of its ports for the IP portion of the configuration and 48 ports for the E1 portion of the configuration.)

Table: 120 IP Ports, 240 E1 Ports, 360 Total Ports

Slot

Blade

6

MP-MA-4

5

SB

4

SB

3

SB

2

SB

1

MP-MA-16-PRI

In Table: 240 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 360 Total Ports, the MP-MA-16 in slot 6 provides 240 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blades in slots 4 and 5 use their 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 3 uses 48 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 + 96 + 48 = 240). The MP-MA-4-PRI in slot 1 provides 120 E1 ports. The Smart Blade in slot 2 uses its 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 3 uses 24 of its remaining 48 ports for conferencing (96 + 24 = 120). (The Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 48 of its ports for the IP portion of the configuration and 24 ports for the E1 portion of the configuration.)

Table: 240 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 360 Total Ports

Slot

Blade

6

MP-MA-16

5

SB

4

SB

3

SB

2

SB

1

MP-MA-4-PRI

Configuration Information and Examples for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8112

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8112 supports the following:

Up to 1152 ports in a T1 CAS Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system

Up to 736 ports in a T1 PRI Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system (U.S. and Canada)

Up to 960 ports in an E1 Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system

Up to 960 IP ports (supports codecs G.711 (A-law and u-law) and G.729a and signaling H.323 and SIP)

T1 PRI and E1 Multi Access Blades are installed on the left (with slot 2 left vacant if no MP-MA-16-PRI or MP-MA-4-PRI is needed to populate it and if the slot is not needed for Smart Blade capacity). Next, T1 Smart Blades are installed to the right of this. Last, IP Multi Access Blades are installed starting on the right (slot 16), and move to the left.

Note: In all configurations for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8112, slots 7 to 10 are reserved for CPU and system controller cards.

Table: Pure T1 PRI Configuration, 736 T1 PRI Ports

Slot

1

2

3

4

5

6

11

12

13

14

15

16

Blade

MP-MA-16- PRI

MP-MA-16- PRI

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

Example: Pure IP Configuration

Table: Pure IP Configuration, 960 IP Ports shows a pure IP configuration with 960 IP ports. There are two MP-MA-16s on the right which support 480 IP ports each (2 x 480 = 960). Because Multi Access Blades do not provide conferencing capability, every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so slots 1 to 6 and slots 11 to 14 each have a Smart Blade with a capacity for 96 ports.

Table: 480 IP Ports, 576 T1 CAS Ports, 1056 Total Ports

In Table: 240 IP Ports, 720 T1 CAS Ports, 960 Total Ports, the two MP-MA-4s in slots 15 and 16 provide 120 IP ports each (2 x 120 = 240). Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blades in slots 13 and 14 use their 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 12 uses 48 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 + 96 + 48 = 240). The remaining 48 ports in slot 12 (96 - the 48 used for the IP conferencing) plus the ports in slots 1 to 6 and 11 (7 x 96 = 672) are used for the T1 CAS portion of the configuration (672 + 48 = 720).

Table: 240 IP Ports, 720 T1 CAS Ports, 960 Total Ports

Slot

1

2

3

4

5

6

11

12

13

14

15

16

Blade

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

MP-MA-4

MP-MA-4

In Table: 600 IP Ports, 360 T1 CAS Ports, 960 Total Ports, the MP-MA-16 in slot 16 provides 480 IP ports and the MP-MA-4 in slot 15 provides 120 IP ports, for a total of 600 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blades in slots 5 to 14 use their 576 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 4 uses 24 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 x 6= 576 + 24 = 600). The remaining 72 ports in slot 4 (96 - the 24 used for the IP conferencing) plus the ports in slots 1 to 3 (3 x 96 = 288) are used for the T1 CAS portion of the configuration (288 + 72 = 360).

In Table: 120 IP Ports, 480 E1 Ports, 600 Total Ports, the MP-MA-4 in slot 16 provides 120 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blade in slot 12 uses its 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 11 uses 24 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 + 24 = 120). The MP-MA-16-PRI in slot 1 provides 480 E1 ports. The remaining 72 ports in slot 11 (96 - the 24 used for the IP conferencing) plus the ports in slots 2 to 6 (5 x 96 = 480) are used for the E1 portion of the configuration (5 x 96 = 480).

Table: 120 IP Ports, 480 E1 Ports, 600 Total Ports

Slot

1

2

3

4

5

6

11

12

13

14

15

16

Blade

MP-MA-16-PRI

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

MP-MA-4

In Table: 480 IP Ports, 480 E1 Ports, 960 Total Ports, the MP-MA-16 in slot 16 provides 480 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blades in slots 11 to 15 use their 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 x 5 = 480). The MP-MA-16-PRI in slot 1 provides 480 E1 ports. The ports in slot 2 to 6 (5 x 96 = 480) are used for the E1 portion of the configuration.

Table: 480 IP Ports, 480 E1 Ports, 960 Total Ports

Slot

1

2

3

4

5

6

11

12

13

14

15

16

Blade

MP-MA-16-PRI

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

MP-MA-16

In Table: 480 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 600 Total Ports, the MP-MA-16 in slot 16 provides 480 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blades in slots 4 to 12 use their 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 x 5 = 480). The MP-MA-4-PRI in slot 1 provides 120 E1 ports. The 96 ports in slot 2 plus 24 of the ports in slot 3 are used for the E1 portion of the configuration (96 + 24 = 120).

Table: 480 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 600 Total Ports

Slot

1

2

3

4

5

6

11

12

13

14

15

16

Blade

MP-MA-4-PRI

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

SB

MP-MA-16

In Table: 120 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 240 Total Ports, the MP-MA-4 in slot 16 provides 120 IP ports. Every 96 ports of IP requires one Smart Blade, so the Smart Blade in slot 4 uses its 96 ports and the Smart Blade in slot 3 uses 24 of its 96 ports for IP conferencing (96 + 24 = 120). The MP-MA-4-PRI in slot 1 provides 120 E1 ports. The 96 ports in slot 2 plus 24 of the unused ports in slot 3 are used for the E1 portion of the configuration (96 + 24 = 120).

Table: 120 IP Ports, 120 E1 Ports, 240 Total Ports

Slot

1

2

3

4

5

6

11

12

13

14

15

16

Blade

MP-MA-4-PRI

SB

SB

SB

MP-MA-4

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Software

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server software uses a client server architecture that divides computing tasks between the server and the client. The following software resides on the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system database disk:

A real-time UNIX/POSIX-compatible operating system designed specifically for real-time intensive applications.

The system software, including:

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace application software.

Relational SQL database for storing all conference and profile information.

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace options.

Desktop software is installed on desktop computers. This software communicates with the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system over the LAN or WAN.

Table: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Voice-Only Configuration

Component

Description

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace user licenses

Software license that allows callers to attend conferences. You may purchase more user licenses than you foresee for conference attendance, to provide telephony connectivity to support activities outside conferences (for example, to listen to meeting recordings).

MeetingTime

Desktop software that allows users to access and use Cisco Unified MeetingPlace functions from Cisco MCS. The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace voice-only configuration includes five MeetingTime licenses.

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing (web scheduling only)

Windows-based server software that allows users to schedule conferences, share meeting materials, and listen to recorded meetings and voice comments from web browsers. Users can also link to meeting list pages for today's meetings, past meetings, and future meetings.

Performance Rating

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8106 and 8112 servers both are rated as being able to process about 2.6 full incalls per second.

A full incall is defined as an incoming call that enters a conference. This translates to 160 calls per minute or 9,600 calls per hour.